Time has rolled round yet again, the year has been reset and by the time you read this most people's New Year’s resolutions will have been broken. Hopefully your New Year’s resolution wasn't to buy less table top games, because there are loads of awesome board, card, miniature and roleplaying games set to be released in 2017.

Every year this list gets easier and easier to write as game publishers provide more and more information early and start promoting their games. In fact I've really struggled to keep this list down to X games.

It also means that games can be delayed. All the games listed here are slated to be released in 2017, but as we've seen in previous years there may be some delays.

Every year I like to look back at my gaming habits. The theory is that
even though its normal to look at the best games of the previous year
(which I have done in both the Best Games of 2016 and our latest podcast episode) it’s also good to look back at the games I've been playing the
most, the theory being that it keeps track of my gaming tastes and
shows which games have truly shone through.

We kick off the New Year with by kicking some demon butt in Doom: The Board Game, we investigate the hype of Mechs vs. Minions and realise we know nothing about our nation’s past with Timeline: British History. We also discuss board game profit margins, the new Roborally and boardgamegeek.com.

For those of you swimming around inside your father’s scrotal cavity in
1993, the DOOM series has been a benchmark for FPS titles (First Person
Shooters for those of you not au fait with the wonderful world of the
video smile machines), a standard which few games have surpassed. id
Software are renowned for making solid game engines and DOOM was their
breakthrough title. It’s spawned (pun intended) a legacy of sequels,
updates and remakes around the canon – all usually involving an unnamed
soldier (the DOOM Marine) running around a Martian base trying to repel
the forces of Hell back from whence they came. Rather like closing time
in a one-club town, there’s a lot of ugly mutants wandering around
attacking the authority figures and wondering why they get a beating,
before being sent back to the holes they came from.

It’s that time of year yet again where we take stock of what has been before and look forward to what yet may come. I’ve already discussed some of my favourite games of the year on our latest podcast episode but that doesn’t stop me from sticking with tradition and writing up a list of my favourite games of the year.

As with every year it’s not possible to play every single game (unless your surname is Vasel) but I always have a damn good go to play as many games as I can. Unfortunately, there are always those that slip through the net. I haven’t had any chance to play Euro-darlings Cottage Garden and A Feast for Odin and my miniature game addiction laments that I haven’t had the opportunity to play The Others: 7 Sins, even though one of my gaming group went crazy with the Kickstarter it got stuck at sea for a very long time. The games I regret not playing the most however are Terraforming Mars and Cry Havoc both of which come highly praised.